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b. 232-233

composition: Op. 49, Fantaisie in F minor

Slur to b. 233 in A (→GE)

Slur to end of b. 232 (literal reading→EE)
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In FE the slur in bar 232, at the end of a page, suggests that it should be continued, yet there is no ending thereof on the following page. EE considered the slur to be excessively long and ended it on the last quaver in the bar. In the main text we give the unequivocal A slur (→GE). 

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in FE , Uncertain slur continuation

b. 232

composition: (Op. 4), Sonata in C minor, Mvt I

No markings in A (→GE→FE,EE)

4 long accents in IE
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IE added 4 short  marks, indicating long accents, as in GE (→FE,EE,IE) in the next bar – see the respective note. According to us, they could have resulted from a mistake – the engraver inserted the marks a bar too early; having realised his mistake, he assumed that the marks did not need to be removed, as they did not disturb the musical course, and he limited his self-corrections to adding the four right marks to bar 233.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: FE revisions

b. 232-236

composition: (Op. 4), Sonata in C minor, Mvt I

No slurs in A

Slurs in GE (→FE,EE,IE)
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Short slurs, encompassing pairs of quavers played in one hand position, are written in A only above the first two pairs of four encompassed by one longer slur in bars 232-233, 233-234 and 234-235. Patchy slurring also apply to bars 235-236 – slurs are omitted over 4 out of 7 pairs of quavers. This notation is due not to musical reasons, but to graphic ones – Chopin omitted slurs that would be difficult to write under the octave sign, hoping that those he wrote would be treated by the performers (and perhaps the engraver) as model ones. This observation is confirmed by the notation of A at the transition between bars 232 and 233 – at the end of the line (bar 232), there is no slur under the word loco, but a slur ending can be found at the beginning of bar 233, where nothing makes it difficult to write the slur. For this reason, we add the omitted slurs in the main text, which was already done in GE (→FE,EE,IE).

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: Inaccurate slurs in A , GE revisions , Uncertain slur continuation

b. 233

composition: Op. 43, Tarantella

 
 
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In IE c1quaver was overlooked in the first half of the bar in the RH part, which is proven by the lack of an augmentation dot on the preceeding crotchet. 

category imprint: Differences between sources

b. 233

composition: Op. 43, Tarantella

 
 
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In W GE1 (→GE2) most probably as a result of an error E is the last quaver in LH instead of F.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in GE